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1 MUSIC : SIGNATURE 2 INN : (EASILY) Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to 3 hear is true . The names have been changed to protect the 11. innocent . 5 MUSIC : DRUM ROLL UNDER 6 GIBNEY: Dragnet, is brought to you by Chesterfield, made b y 7 Liggett and Myers, first major tobacco company to bring 8 you a complete line of quality cigarettes . 9 MUSIC : UP AND FADE FOR 3 10 FENN: (EASILY) YouIa detective sergeant . You're assigned to 11 Missing Persons detail . You get a call that a young 12 mother and a nine month old baby have disappeared . 13 Routine investigation turn up the possibility of foul 1k play . Your job . . . . .find them . 15 MUSIC : UP AND FADE FOR :

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1 MUSIC : THEME 2 GIBNEY : Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime . For the 3 next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angele s k Police'Department, you will travel step by step on the i~~tf( 5 sides of the law through an actual case transcribed from 6 official police files . From beginning to end . . . .from 7 crime to punishment . . . . . Dragnet is the story of your 8 - police force in action . 9 MUSIC : UP TO SEMI BUTTON AND FADE ON SUSTAINED CHORD .

10 SOUND: JOE'S AND FRANK'S STEPS IN APARTMENT CORRIDOR . NO ECHO 11 JOE : It was Tuesday, August 12th . It was warm in Los Angeles .

12 We were working the day watch out of Homicide Division,

13 Missing Persons Detail. My partner's Frank Smith . The 1k boss is Captain Lohrman . My name's Friday . We were on

15 our way out from the office and it was 10 :1k A .M. when

16 got to 1865 Malabar Street . .. .(SOUND : DOOR KNOCK) . . .the 17 manager's apartment .

18 SOUND: OFF Mfl , IN THE MANAGER'S APARTMENT WE HEAR THE SOUND OF

19. A BABY CRYING . 20 JOE : Better try it again . 21 FRANK : Yeah . 22 SOUND : FRANK MOVES TO THE DOUR AND KNOCKS . THIS TIME . LOUDER . 23 BEAT

24 BARBARA : (OFF MIKE, YELLING) Just a minute . . . .I'm movin' as fast 25 as I can .

26 SOUND : THE SOUND OF THE BABY CRYING GOES OFF MIKE BUT CONTINUES .

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1 FRANK: Sounds like she's got trouble . 2 JOE': Yeah.. 3 SOUND : THE DOOR OPENS IF BARBARA : Yeah? 5 JOE : Mrs . Fleischer? 6 BARBARA : Yeah . What d'ya want ? 7 JOE : Police officers. We'd like to talk to you. 8 SOUND : FROM THE NEXT ROOM. THE BABY TAKES OFF AGAIN .

9 BARB : C'mon in. I gotta take care of that kid . 10 SOUND : JOE AND FRANK ENTER THE ROOM 11 JOE FRANK (TOGETHER) Thank you. . . .thanks .

12 SOUND : THEY CLOSE THE DOOR BEHIND THEM.

].3 BARB : Sit down. I'll be right back . 1SOUND : BARBARA FADES INTO NEXT ROOM . THE BABY CONTINUES TO CRY . 15 FRANK: Sounds like colic to me . 16 JOE : That right?

17 FRANK: Sure . Sounds like colic . Wonder if she's got a hot 18 water bottle . J r tSk~ 19 JOE : What? /) 20 FRANK: Hot water bottle . Pi 1t on the '.s stomach . 21 Makes him feel better . 22 JOE : Oh yeah. 23 FRANK : Both our kids had the colic . Wore out three hot water 2~4 bottles .

25 JOE : On two kids ? 26 FRANK: Lost the stopper on one of tem .

LG 0189392 1 JOE : Yeah .

2 SOUND: UNDER THE ABOVE THE BABY HAS STOPPED CRYING AND BARBARA 3 SNEAKS BACK INTO THE ROOM . SHE CLOSES THE DOOR QUIETLY k BEHIND HER .

5 BARB : Baby's teething . Havin' a rough time . 6 FRANK: Oh .

7 JOE : This is my partner, Frank Smith . My name's Friday . We'd 8 like to ask you some questions about one of your tenants .

9 BARB : Oh? Which one ? 10 FRANK : A Mrs . Shipley. We understand she had apartment 207 .

11 BARB : Yeah . She did . What about her ? 12 JOE : You know where we can get in touch with her? 13 BARB : Ain't got any idea . 1k FRANK: When'd you see her last? 15 BARB : Guess it must have been . . . month ago . 16 JOE : Possible you might be able to give us an exact date? 17 BARB : If I coulda done that, I'd have told you right o t . I 18 got nothin' to hide . 19 JOE : We didn't mean to say you did . 20 BARB : Sounded like it . Sounded a awful lot like it . I'm gonna 21 be honest with you . 22 JOE : Yes ma'am . 23 BARB : When Harriet first moved in here, we got along fine .

2k She was all the time wantin' me to tell her how to take

25 care of the baby, when it came .

LG 0189393 1 FRANK: Yes ma'am. 2 BARB : Got along just fine, Used to have our little cuppa coffee

3 in the afternoon . Chummy . Then all of a sudden it all got different . 5 JOE : How's that? 6 BARB : Just did. Her husband was overseas . In the Army, I guess 7 Harriet missed him pretty much . Anyways she was always 8 sayin' how she did . Wished he could be here when the baby 9 was bo r Got terrible depressed . i A ~m 10 JOE : Uh huh . 11 BARB: Moody . YE know? 12 JOE : Yeah. 13 BARB : I did what I could to cheer her up . Used to go up there Ill. and we'd sit and talk . Taught her how to knit . Gave

15 her some needles and yarn as a little present . I thought 16 maybe it'd give her somethin' to think about . Kinda take

17 her mind off her and her husband . (SEAT) Didn't do no good .

18 JOE : How long had her husband been away? 19 BARB : ii. months this time . He's over in Japan I think . Army. 20 JOE : Yeah . 21 BARB : Harriet used to go out once in a while . Go down to the 22 show . Seemed like just about every picture she saw made

23 her sadder . I guess that's why she did it . Just got so 24 sad she couLdn'.t take it no more . What's that?

LG 0189394 1 BARB : Tried to kill herself . 2 FRANK: Mrs . Shipley? 3 BARB : Ye I got the kids in bed one night and went up there . k I hadn't heard nothin' from her that day, so I went up t o 5 see how she was . Good thing I did too . Found her right 6 there in the livin' room . She'd out her wrists . Right 7 away, I called for the doctor and all the ambulances and 8 police come runnin' around . Took her to the hospital . 9 Big deal . Guess I found her in time though; . They 10 pulled her through . 11 JOE : Uh huh . 12 BARB : I walk up there and find her dyin' . (IlVDICATES) That far 13 from deaths door . And when she comes home Prom the lk hospital,, . .what thanks d'ys think I get ? 15 BEAT 16 JOE : Go ahead .

17 BARB: Nothin' . Not a single solitary word do I get . She's 18 mad. Says I shoulda left her alone . Let her done it . 19 Come in here when she got back and read me off in words

21 that I ain't used to hearin' . 22 JOE : Uh huh. . 23 BARB I got five kids, Nister . They take a lot of time, and I 2k ain't got enough to go runnin' around after nobody who 25 don't thank a person for savin' their life like that .

26 I called it quits right then . Right at that minute . . . . 27 we were no longer friends .

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1 JOE : When did she make the attempt on her life ? 2 BARB : Inst September . I don't remember the date . I think it 3 was the second.. . .maybe the third week . I'm not sure !} about what day it was . Any way. . .after I save her life , 5 she 'a mad at me .. S° I i' C 6 JOE : She have a j eople here in Los Angeles, d'ya know ? 7 BARB : I never heard her talk of none . She's got a sister . I 8 know that, but I don't know where she is . Don't think 9 Harriet ever said . 10 JOE : What'd she say to you when she left? Give you any idea 11 where she was goin' ? 12 BARB : I didn't even see her . She didn't even come by and say

13 so long . . .goodbye . . .taka a jump . . .nothin', She just 1k left, One night she's here, . . .next morning she's gone . 15 JOE : She get any mail while she was here? 16 BARB : Yeah. Once in a while she'd get a letter from her 17 husband. Then there was a couple of letters from San 18 Francisco . I don't know who they was from . 19 JOE : Uh huh . She take everything with her? All of her 20 personal things ? 21 BARB : Nothin' . Left it all here . 'Course, it's not much , 22 but it's all here . 23 JOE : Whp'e are the things ? 2k BARB : Downstairs in the basement . I got it all put away in 25 case she ever comes back. Gonna cost her too . Storage 26 and for me to pack it . I told gou . . .it isn't much . Some 27 dresses . . .few clothes for the baby . . . phonograph, couple 1 28 of records . That's about it . roan see 'em if you want .

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1 FRANK: We'd like to take a look at them before we leave : 2 BARB : Sure thing. Can't let you take 'em though . I gotta 3 collect for the storage . k FRANK: Yes ma'am . 5 JOE : Mrs . Shipley have any close friends that you know of? 6 BARB i Not that I know . Course she might have had some down at 7 the Dreampalace : 8 JOE : What's that?

9 BARB : Where she worked . A dancehall downtown . She was a kinda

10 hostess there . `` 11 JOE : That's the name of the place? Dreampalace? t, 12 BARB : Yeah . She might have had some friends down there . None 13 of 'em ever came here though . Least if they did, I neve r 1k saw 'em . 15 JOE : Uh huh . Do you know of any reason she might have left in 16 such a hurry? 17 BARB : Not right off,-I can't think of one . There was somethin ' 18 wrong with her though when she came back from the hospital . 19 Y' know when she had the baby . She was worried hbout

20 somethin' . 21 JOE : You know what it was ? 22 BARB : No . All I know is that when she'd been home a couple of 23 days, she came down here and asked me to do some work on

2k the apartment . I told her if she wanted anything done, 25 she could do it herself after the way she talked to me .

LG 17189397 1 JOE : What'd she want done ? 2 BARB : Silliest thing I ever heard of . She didn't have anything 3 to steal . k JOE : Ma'am : She wante7'll? 5 BARB the locks on the doors changed . 6 (END SCENE 1 ) 7 JOE : 10:6 A .M. In the company of the apartment manager , 8 Barbara Fleischer, Frank and I went down to the basement 9 and looked through the missing woman's effects . Other 10 than the phonograph, several cardboard boxes of use d 11 baby clothes and cheap woman's dresses, we found nothing . 12 There were no snapshots or letters to aid us i n 13 ascertaining where whe might have gone . We asked Mrs . 1k Fleischer to notify us in the event that she heard fro m 15 the Shipley woman . We put in a call to Georgia Street 1 16 Receiving Hospital and verified the sto,71 about th e 17 attempted suicide . 11:15 A .M. we checked the phonebook

18 for the address of the Dreampalace Dance Hall . It was on 19 the second floor of a large building at the corner o f

20 Seventh and Margo Streets . On the front of the building

21 were several faded photographs of contest winners with 22 the cups they'd won, and the name of the proprietor , 23 Ernest Lasnik . We went upstairs . It was a large barnlike 2k room with crepe paper birds hanging over the lights . In 25 rear of the place, at one of the tables, we found Lasnik. 26 He was eating his lunch.

27 SOUND: THERE IS A SLIGHT E0IO ON ALL OF THE _SOU11DS IN THE 28 FOLLOWING SCENE . '

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1 FRANK: Mr . Lasnik? 2 ERNEST : (WITH HIS MOUTH FULL OF FOOD) Yeah . What d'ya want ? 3 FRANK: Like to ask you some questions . We're police officers . ~F My name's Smith, this is try partner, Sergeant Friday . 5 ERNEST : Hi. . . .Won't shake hands . . . . .got butter all over 'em. Sit 6 down. 7 SOUND: THEY DO . 8 ERNEST : Care for a sandwich? 9 JOE : No thanks. 10 ERNEST : Y'do . . .go right ahead . . .there's all the makings . Bread . . . . 11 butter . . . salami . . . pickles . Help yourself. 12 JOE : No thanks, Mr . Lssnik. 13 ERNEST : You donut mind if I go ahead . Gotta bunch of kids comin' 1k in at .3 :30 . Like to get the place cleaned up before then . 15 JOE : No, sir. . .go right ahead . 16(PRODUOTION NOTE : FROM TIME TO TIME, ERNEST EATS THE SANDWICH A S 17 HE TALKS, WASHING IT DOiN WITH WATER) 18 ERNEST : What d'ya wanna see me about ? 19 JOE : It's about one of your employees . 20 ERNEST : Yeah? Which one ? 21 JOE : Girl named Harriet Ship)e~r . 22 ERNEST : Oh yeah . . .I remember. She don't work here no more . 23 FRANK: You have any idea where she is ? 2k ERNEST : Uh uh (NO) Ain't got the slightest . I ain't seen Nadine 25 in about maybe . . . .6 months . 26 FRANK: No sir. . .you don't understand. . . .We're inquiring about a 27 Harriet Shipley .

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1 ERNEST: Yeah . . . I know . Told you, I eintt seen her in 6 months . 2 FRANK: What's this about Nadine ? 3 ERNEST: Her club name . Y'see, lotsa the girls don't like to IF use their real names . Case a fella wants to get chummy 5 away from here, it's easier if we don't know the girl's real name . Harriet .•ueed~Nadine . 6 •• 9\b` 7 JOE . I undersjnd .

3 ERNEST : We got a bunch of 'em . When one of the girls leaves, 9 we put the name back in the hat . New girl picks it . 10 Had 1k Nadlnes since we opened . 11 JOE: Uh huh. 12 ERNES T: 27 Altheas .

13 JOE: Yes sir. Do you have any idea where the Shipley girl

1k is? 15 ERDIEST: Nope . Might check with her husband . He might know . 16 JOE: We understood he was in the army .

17 ERNEST: That's right . He is . Overseas . He should know where 18 his wife is though . Ask him . 19 JOE: We'll probably do that sir, but we thought maybe we 20 could turn her up ourselves . There's been a missing 21 report filed on her . 22 ERNEST : Missin' huh? Who told ft?

23 JOE: Sir? 2k ERNEST : Who told about her bein' missing? 25 FRANK: Report was filed by her mother-in-law .

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_ T Well, I wish I could help you fellas out I told you, she was in here about 6 months ago . Said sham' come in to just say hello . Had the baby with hp <, I personavy ttlnk she was tryin' to get a job . ourse , She didn't come right out and ask, but she, 6 hied around that she'd think about c 7 ' RANX; Uh h K . # 3 6NEST ; Told me that she was tryin' to find some kinds work 9 to help m ends meet . 10 TOE; She have an close friends here 11 Rr~ST ; No . . . not tha come to mindhttq of f . Nadine was

12 1 idnda close . . y now, she apt to herself . Good 13 E dancer . Used to busy1 the time . Hardly every 14 had a sit out . / 15tAN~~; Was there one girl she\eemed to talk to more than the

10 others ? 17 ERI~ST ; Nope . I told you, ..-she wasn't close to nobody . d 18 bOr; She ever mentions any relativeto you? 19 Ri~1CST; No . I think si~te was all a lone . \I heard her to lkin' to 20 one of the gls one time about a is ter . Don't i 21 f remember to good . But it was abo a sister . i 22 DOE ; Wonder iI we could talk to the girl ? 23 EST: I dunnq She ain't here . Called her ADina . I

2k E can give you her real name if you want it .\ Might be 25 t able to find her. Told me she had to go bas East . 26 That's the reason she gave to quit .

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~ j~Q ~~ 2 FBNAE&P' 3 FRANK : ; The last time you saw the Shipley girl, did she say k anything about leaving town? . 5 ERNEST :" No . Wouldn't be suprised though."

6 JOE : Why do you say that?. 7 ERNEST Well,, the poor kid was scared to death . Told me she 8 wanted to get away . 9 JOE : Do you know what she was frightened about ? 10 ERNEST : . Yeah. C1iff .Bender . That's what she was afraid of . ' 11 Cliff . 12 JOE : Who's he ? 13 ERNEST : Look, I'll tell you the whole thing . Be easier that 1k way . One favor I gotta ask though . 15 JOE : Yeah? . a

16 ERNEST : You won't tell Cliff I told yo/.' He come up here, he

17 could tear the place apart easy . , tf he 18 You gotta promise me you won't 19 tell him . 20 JOE : Alright . . .go ahead . 21 ERNEST : : Well, Nadine . .or Harriet . .she came to work for me about 22 a year and a half ago . Came in and told me she'd has 23 some expezience in a dance place in the mid west . I 24 don't remember the name right off. Probably come to me . 25 JOE : Uh huh . 26 ERNEST : Well, I told her I'd try her . .y'know sort of a 27 probation . 28 JOE : Yeah .

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1 ERNEST : Worked out fine . End of the week, I put her on pexmanent . 2 She did real well . Lotta guys got to comin' in just to 3 dance with hez< Wouldn't have nobody else . Just Nadine . . . .Harriet . 5 JOE : Uh huh .

6 ERNEST : That's how she met Cliff . He came in one night . Fell

7 for her and they started to go together . I told 'em I 8 didn't like the idea of the girls goin' out with the 9 customers . Not good business . Didn't make any 10 difference to them though . They kept right on see in' 11 each other . 12 JOE : That's this Bender fella huh?

13 ERNEST : Yeah . Anyway, one night this soldier come in . He was 1 k took right away with Nadine . Asked her for a dance .

15 Kept buyin' tickets all night so's he could dance with

16 her . Came back the next night . Same thing . All night

17 long, he danced with Nadine . Ma Cliff pretty sore, 18 but there wasn't anything he could do about it . She

19 wanted to be with the soldier . Wasn't too long before 20 she told me that they was gonna get married . Well, the

21 word got around about that and it really made Cliff

22 hacked . Real hacked .

23 JOE : Yeah . 2k ERNEST : Him and the soldier, Shipley . . .they had a fight 25 downstairs one night after we closed . Guess Cliff 26 waited for him and Nadine to come down . Anyways, it 27 was a real brawl . Cops 'n everything . Cliff really 28 cleaned up on the soldier . Didn't do any good though . 29 FRANK : What d'ya mean?

LG 0189403 0 /i 1 -15- Nad(e told. Cliff to stay away from her . Keep far away . Told him that her and the soldier were gonna get married and that they were through . She meant Cliff and her . Yeah .

The soldier and Nadine got married couple of days late r 7 and she quit her job . . Right after that, I heard he 8 went over seas and Cliff was around tryin' to break 9 things up . Didn't do no good though . Nadine loved 10 the soldier and she planned to stay with him .

11 JOE : Yeah . /, r 12 ERNEST : I tried to talk to Cliff. Tell him to stay out of it .

13 Leave the girl alone . . But it did1p t do any good . He 1k was sure hacked . Said that she was his girl . .might take

15 some time but he'd get her for runnin' out on him . I 16 figure he told her that, too . That's what she was

17 afraid of . Don't blame her . Cliff told me that, ltd

18 believe him . 19 JOE : What's that?

20 ERNEST That he was gonna kill her .

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LG 0189404 -16- 1 JOE : 12 :26 P .M . After we'd gotten the names and addresses of the 2 employees .ol .tha..Draampalace who knew the missing girl , 3 Frank and I went back to the office . We had the names checked through the record bur,~.u but found that only one 5 of the 14 people on the list had arrest records . That one 6 was Cliff Bender, who'd been picked up on a charge o f 7 suspicion of burglary . However, according to the 8 information on the report, he'd been released because of

9 lack of evidence . We chocked the log about the fight

10 L sn•ik had mentioned . We found that an F.I . Card had been 11 filed but no arrest had been made . We went over to rooms 12 and talked with Sgt . Eggenweiler and Sgt . Roubles, the 13 officers who'd handled the burglany case . They told us that

T 1 T fin their contacts with Bender, he was aullen :.and 15 uncoope tve . They told us that he had been seen in the 16 company of known criminals . They told us that in their 17 opinion, the man could be considered dangerous . We checked 18 his last known address but found that he had moved in July, 19 leaving no forwarding address . While Frank and I checked 20 out the rest of the missing girls friends an d 21 aquaintences, Sgt . Graham and,, Cliff Bailey tried to 22 check on Bender . We talked to everybody on the list we'd 23 gotten from Ernest Lasnik, but none of them could give u s 2k any idea where we might find the Shipley girl . Most of 25 them however, told us about the threat that . Bender had made 26 against her life and expressed the opinion that he wa s

27 responsible for her disappearance .

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LG 0189405 -17- 1 JOE : The next day, Wednesday, August 13th, Frank and I went (CONT'D ) 2 by communications and then checked back into the office . 3 SOUND : - S~UADROOM B.G . 4 FRANK: I tell you that the mother in-law called again this 5 morning? 6 JOE : No . 7 FRANK : Wanted to know how we were doin' . What progress we been 8 able to make .

9 JOE : Yeah . 10 FRANK : I filled her in on what we found . I didn't tell her

11 about Bender . Just said that we thought we'd be able 12 to find the girl . 13 JOE : Uh huh . 14 FRANK : You talked to her when she made the original report, 15 didn't you Joe ? 16 JOE : Yeah .

17 FRANK : What d'you think? 18 JOE : What d'ya mean?

20 FRANK : Isn't there something there that's a little off base to 21 you? 22 JOE : I don't know what you're tryin' to get at . / F 23 FRANK : Well, it just seems to me that she doesn't care if we 24 find her daughter-in-law or n,1 . All she cares about 25 is the y 26 JOE : Yeah . I got that idea mS~self . Way she talked, it 27 doesn't seem that she and the girl got along too well . 28 FRANK : Just seems like there's something she isn't tellin' us . 29 I asked her this morning if she'd heard from her son . If 30 he knew anything about where his wife might be . 3 . JOE : What'd she say?

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1 FRANK : Told me she hasn't wanted to bother him, make him worry . 2 Wouldn't even give me his mailing address . Said she 3 didn't want him alarmed unless there was a reason . i JOE : Way I see it, his wife being gone is reason enough . 5 FRANK : I told her that . She said our job was just to find 6 the girl and the baby, that's all . / y C2

7 JOE : Cooperation like that isn't gonna make it any easier . 8 We can only do so much if she isn't gonnah help . 9 FRANK : Doesn't make a lot of sense . Her film' the report 10 and then holding out information .

11 JOE : Yeah . We better get over and talk to her again . See 12 if we can get the whole story . How 'bout Graham and

13 Bailey? Heard from them ? 1 FRANK : Note in the book, they got a lead on Bender . Graham

15 said they were gonna run it down for us this morning . 16 JOE : Uh huh . What time you got ?

17 FRANK : (LOOKING AT HIS WATCH) 9 :k3 . 18 JOE : I wanna talk to the skipper . Make arrangements to put 19 a picture of the Shipley girl on Suspects Wanted thi s 20 afternoon . Might be able to turn something . 21 FRANK : Sure a lotta loose e~ . 22 SOUND : PHONE RIN G

23 JOE : I'll get it . 2 SOUND : JOE WALKS TO THE PHONE AND PUNCHES THE BUTTON . HE LIFTS 25 THE RECEIVER .

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1 JOE : (INTO PHONE) Missing Persons . .Friday . Yeah, Graham . 2 Uh huh. Where? Yeah . . .what 'd she say? TJh huh . Yeah . . 3 that's about the same . Yeah . What? . . .yeah. You wanna ~F call the crime lab? Right . We'll meet you out there 5 right away . 6 SOUND : HE HANGS UP . 7 JOE : They found where Bender was living . 8 FRANK : What d'ya mean "was? " 9 JOE : He checked out last June . About the same time the 10 Shipley girl disappeared . Landlady hasn't seen him 11 since . Guys came up with somethin' else . 12 FRANK : Yeah . 13 JOE : Couple of shim for a baby . / ' f 1 FRANK : Uh huh . / 15 JOE : Bloodstains all over tem . (END SCENE 3)

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1 JOE : 10 :02 A .M . we got to the apartment where Bender had been 2 living . The crew from the crime lab were there an d 3 were photographing the room and the clothing that had been found . Sergeant Jay Allen told us that he'd have 5 to run a precipitate test on the stains before he could 6 tell whether or not they were of human origin . 10 : 5 7 A .M . They finished their investigation on the scen e 8 and went back to central station to compile the results . + 9 Frank called the office and a local and an A .J. were

10 put out on Cliff Bender asking that he be picked up as 11 a possible suspect . We also had had his 12 card flagged in the record bureau . We talked to the 13 landlady of the apartment building and she told us that

14 Bender had left his apartment hurriedly on a night in 15 the middle of June . She was unable to tell us the

16 exact date but she did go on to say that she'd bee n 17 getting a check for the rent each month . We asked her 18 if she could show us either one of the checks or an

19 envelope it had come in . She explained that ehe had 20 thrown the envelopes away and cashed the checks . She 21 was unable to tell us where the checks had been maile d 22 from . She said that as far as she knpvi, she'd never / I' ' 23 seen the Shipley girl in Bender's apartment . We asked 2t} her to notify us immediately in the event that the 25 suspect returned . We put in a call to the bank where 26 the rent checks were cashed and asked that they b e 27 checked for us . (MQJE)

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1 JOE : .1 :30 P .M . Frank and I went over to the crime lab and (CONT'D ) 2 talked to Jay Allen . Be told us that the stains on the 3 baby clothes were human blood . He showed us the photographs taken but there was nothing in them that 5 would give us a lead either to the girl's or Bender's 6 where-a-bouts . That afternoon, the picture of Harrie t 7 Shipley was telecast over the police program . We got /' 8 several calls fray citizens who s ,(that they'd seen 9 the girl . We checked them all out . One of the callers, 10 a bus driver told us that he'd seen the girl and th e 11 baby on his bus during the month of June, and that 12 she'd gotten off in San Diego . We alerted the police

13 in that city to look for her . Thursday morning, Frank 14 and I checked into the office . 15 SOUND ; Sw~UADROOM B .G .

16 JOE : Wanna check the book? See if there's anything from 17 San Diego ? 18 FRANK : Right .

19 SOUND : FRANK WALKS OFF MIKE . THE PHONE RINGS ON MIKE . JOE 20 .P.TJNCHES THE BUTTON AND PICKS UP THE PHONE .

21 JOE : (INTO PHONE) Missing Person's . . .Friday . Yes that's 22 right . res we did . Uh huh . Where? You're su el 23 Uh huh . Right away . / / - . 24 SOUND ;_ PHONE HANG UP . 25 JOE : Get your coat . 26 FRANK : What've you got? 27 JOE ; The Shipley girl . . .they've found her .

END SCENE ~F END ACT 1

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1 GIBNEY : You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of 2 your police force in action .

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LG 0189411 DRAGNET RADIO March 2, 1954

'C ~jg C OMVERCIAL ! 7 f 1 FENN : M,,'€. the Tom Haxmons . You know Tom as an all American . . . 2 And now, a top sports announcer . Mrs . Harmon is the 3 motion picture and television star - Elyse Kn9x'. They're k typical of people everywhere who are saying ...... 5 "Chesterfields for me . "

6 ELYSE • I lily regular size Chesterfields . . . . .have for years . (TAPE) 7 They're best for me - at least, I think so because o f 8 that Chesterfield qualms

9 TOM : That's the way I feel about 'em, too . I've always smoked (TAPE) 10 Chesterfields . Now, I go for the king-size .' Guess I like 11 a longer smo1 e .

Y I 12 PENN : So - whether you smoky regular size, like Elyse Knox. . ., 13 or king-size, like Tom Harmon - enjoy Ame's mos t 1k popular two-way cigarette . "Chesterfields for me" . . . . 15 you hear it everywhe re . The Chesterfield you smoke today 16 is the best cigarette ever mete - for the taste you want 17 ...... the mildness you want, ., . ,join the thousands now 18 changing to Chesterfie3.d . I 'I

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1 PENN : Mel the Tom Haztnons . You know Tom as an all American . . . 2 And now, a top sports announcer . Mrs . Haztnon is the 3 motion picture and television star - Elyse ichp They're 4 typical of people everywhere who are saying . .//. . . . 5 "Chesterfields for me . "

6 ELYSE • I like regular size Chesterfields . ., . .have for years . (TAPE ) 7 They're best for me - at least, I think so because of . 8 that Chesterfield qual 4' .fl f 9 TOM : That's the way I feel about 'em, too . I've always smoke d (TAPE 10 Chesterfields , Now, I go for the king-size . Guess I like 11 a longer smoke,

12 PENN : So - whether you smoke regular size, like Elyse Knox . . . . 13 or king-size, like Tom Harmon - enjoy Amer 's most popular two-way cigarette . "Chesterfields for me" . . . . 15 you hear it . everywhere . The Chesterfield you smoke today 16 is the best cigarette ever ms - for the taste you want 17 ...... the mildness you want, ., . .join the thousands now 18 changing to Chesterfie ,d'. 1 '.( ~

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PAULINE ; Sure . :What d'ya want to knp ? Don't make no 2 difference now . You can go beck and tell her that it's 3 too late . Way too late . k JOE ; dell who? 5 PAULfl : Mrs . Shipley. Harriet's mother-in-law . You go back 6 and tell her that she done it good . They ain't nothin' 7 left to do to Harriet . It's all been done . You tell 8 her that. 9 JOE; We don't work for Mrs . Shipley. We're trying to find 10 out what happened to your sister, and the baby . 11 PAULINE ; Who asked you to find out in the first place? It was 12 her wasn't it? Wasn't she the one ? 13 FRANK; She filed the report . 1k PAULfIE That's what I mean. Well, you go back and tell her 15 that there's nothin' more she can do to Harriet or 16 the baby or to big Jerry . Nothin' at all she can do . 17 (SIB STARTS TO CRY) 18 JOE; Where is the baby? 19 PAULIIdE ; He's not here . 20 JOE ; You know where he is ? 21 PAULI1 Yes, b I ain't gonna tell you . I'm not gonna tell 22 anybody . I promised Harriet I wouldn't tell and I'm 23 gonna keep the promise . 2k JOE ; Look, Mrs, Levin, we don't went to hurt your sister . 25 We're just trying to get the truth . Maybe you better 26 tell us what you know . 27 PAULII~ ; You ain't doirn' this for old Mrs . Shipley. 28 JOE No ma'am.

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1 PAULINE: All right then . I'll tell you, but not for her . I 2 wouldn't give her the time of day . She's the one who 3 did it . The whole thing . You can a lay it right a t 1. her feet . 5 JOE : You wanna tell us ? 6 PAULINE : Since they got married shots been givin' the kid s 7 trouble . Right from the first she heard about it .

Said that Harriet wasn't good enough for her son . l# t: Said Harriet was ch, . But it didn't make any difference to the kids . They got married anyway . They were in love so they got married. Uh huh .

Soon's big Jerry went overseas . She started on

Harriet to get an annulment . All the time writin' her letters tellin' her how cheap she was and that if

she really loved Jerry, she'd get an annulment . Then

17 she found out about the baby so she started sayin' 13 how they should get a divorce . L9 JOE : Does Harriet's husband lmow about this ? ?0 PAULINE: Sure he did . Knew it all along . He didn't like it . ?1 Told his mother to stay out of their lives . Kept y ,. tellin' her but it didn't do no good . None . Tln ~~ .3 Harriet got the wire . The one where it told that big Jerry was dead . Almost killed her . I thought it 5 was going to . They was really in love . Isn't often

you see something like them two . Real love - - the 77 kind you live, not the kind y'talk about . JOE : Uh huh .

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1 PAULINE : One night right after she got the wire, she got a phone 2 call from San Francisco . From old Mrs . Shipley . She told 3 Harriet that she was going to court to take the baby away IF from her. Said that she could prove that Harriet wasn' t 5 a good mother and that she didn't deserve to have the baby . 6 JOE : Was Hart living here at the time? Z y\ ) 7 PAULII'E : No . She'd come down every week-end but she wasn't livin' 8 here . There was a guy up in L .A . that was givin' her 9 trouble . Fella named Bender, I think. He was with he r 10 when she tried to kill herself . He ran out so he wouldn't

11 get mixed up in it . He was always givin' Harriet trouble 12 so she left one night to get away from him and from ol d 13 Mrs . Shipley. She came here and said that she jus t 1k wanted to be left alone with her baby . That's not a lot

15 to ask is it? Is it? Just to to left alone ? 16 JOE : No, ma'am.

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1 PAULfl : It was for old'Mrs . .Shipley . She just wouldn't le t 2 Harriet alyte . Kept after her sayin' how she was gonna 3 take the baby away. . How Harriet was an unfit mother. That's why she came down here . To try and hide . Get 5 away from the old woman. Didn't do any good . She maybe 6 got away from her but she kept thinking that any day the 7 doorbell was gonna ring and there'd be the old bag with 8 the papers to take the baby away from her . Got on her 9 mind. Finally wasn't much else she was thinkin' about 10 but how to keep her baby . She went out welkin' one night . 11 Took the baby with her . Pained . Rained hard . I gues s 12 the baby took cold, anyway, next day he came down with a

13 bad fever . Couple days later he was dead . Not even a 1k year old and he was dead. (SHE CRYS )

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1 PAULINE : Harriet sat around for a week . Didn't say anything . 2 Didn't do nothin' but just stare at the wall . Didn' t

3 even cry . Just sat and looked at the wall . Then all of 1 . a sudden she just fell apart . Wasn't anything that could 5 hold her . She sat.d she was going up to San Francisco and 6 see her mother-in-law . I called the doctor . He said it 7 was a breakdown and said I should have her committed . I 8 signed the papers and that's where she is . I went up to /LI 9 see her . She don't even know me, and I'm her sister . y 10 She don't even know me . (CRYS) So you just tell old 5z"s . .11 Shipley how she did good . You just tell her what she

12 did, to my sister . Tell her how the baby's dead and she i3 finally got what she wanted cause now Harriet hasn't got

11.F the baby. Nobody's got him . Nobody's got him. Nobody . 15 (SHE BREAKS DOWN AND SOBS) 16 AT 17 JOE : C'mon, Frank , 18 FRANK: Yeah .

19 SOUND: THEY WALK TO T1 DOOR AND OPEN IT . WE CAN STILL HEAR _ 20 PAULINE IN THE BACKGROUND SOBBING . THE DOOR CLOSES AND 21 SHUTS OFF THE SOUND . 22 FRANK: Where to? 23 JOE : Better got back to town .

2k FRANK : Guess so . 25 JOE : So we can tell Mrs . Shiplr . (END SCENE 5)

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3 ~u,lt~-3"~hrv We got back l n at 9 :30 P.M. and went directly to the hotel where 5 Mrs . Shipley was staying . The desk clerk told us tha t 6 she'd left word that she wasn't to be disturbed1b t•we

7 t4er tmpc ace . He called 8 the room and she asked that we come right up . We took

9 the elevator to the 7th floor and walked down the hail . 10 SOUND : STEPS ON CARPET . HOLD AND THEN STO P 11 JOE : I'll get it .

12 SOUND : JOE KNOCKS ON THE DOOR . BEAT AND THEN THE DOOR OPENS

13 GLADYS : Goad evening Sergeant Friday . . . .Officer Smith . Come in. 1k SOUND : THEY WALK INTO THE ROOM THE DOOR CLOSES BEHIND THEM . 15 GLADYS : I was just having a drink. May I fix you one ? 16 JOE : No thanks .

17 GLADYS : How about you, Mr . Smith? 18 FRANK : . No . 19 GLADYS : You don't mind if I go ahead? 20 JOE : Not at all . 21 GIADYS : Just sit down . I'll be right with you .

22 SOUND: UNDER THE FOLLOWING. SHE WALKS OFF MIKE AND FIXES A DRINK . 23 ICE IN GLASS. . .BOOZE AND SODA .

2k GLADYS : The desk clerk said it was important . 25 JOE : Yes, ma'am .

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1 GlADYS : Have you found my daughter-inalaw? 2 JOEi Yes, ma'am 1 3 GLADYS:: And the baby .where' s he? Is he still with her? k JOE : No, ma' am, he's not . 5 GlADYS : Where is he? 6 JOE : Your daughter-in-law's pretty sick, Mrs . Shipley. 7 GlADYS: Oh? 8 JOE : Yes, ma'am . She's in the State Hospital at Camarillo . 9 GLADYS: Camarillo? 10 JOE : Yes ma'am. ! -f 11 GLADYS : That's a mental hose X 1 isn't it? 12 JOE : That's right . ~~ 13 GlADYS : I'm sorry to hear about Harriet, But I knew she wasn't 1k very stable . 15 FRANK: Why didn't you tell us your son was dead, Mrs . Shipley? 16 T 17 GLADYS : I didn't think it had any bearing on the thing . What 18 difference does it make ? 19 JOE : You don't seem to be very interested in his wife? 20 BEAT

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1 GLADYS: I'm going to be honest with you Sergeant, I'm not . Not in 2 the least interested, in what she does or where she is . 3 I never did feel that she was the right girl for my son . 1. Never . When the baby was born, I tried to go along with 5 it . Tried to be nice to her and she wouldn't have it . 6 She wouldn't even be friendly . She pois7bd my son . 7 Turned him against me . She's a terrible woman. Just 8 terrible and whatever's happened to her is just exactly g what she's got coming . Naturally I'm sorry it's the wa y 10 it is, but there's nothing I can . AU I'm interested 11 in right now is my grandchild . I want him. And if I 12 have to go to court to got him then I'll do it that way . 13 JOE: That won't be necessary . 1k GLADYS : Where is he? I'd like to go and got him now that Jerry' s 15 wife can't take care of him . 16 BEAT : 17 JOE: He s'de sd 'L ti41 / 7 I '5i) 18 BEAT : , 19 GLADYS: If this is some kind of a joke that you're making up to 20 help my daughter-in-law keep him it won't work . 21 JOE : It's no joke . It's the truth . Ho died in a hospital 22 in San Diego. 23 BEAT.

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1 GLADYS : (BEGINNING TO BREA$) It's not right . 2 It's not right . that he's dead. t.Lrt o TtiYrlf~ " 3 ahni14 -have e i4gh~. hahe ls kex~~ a 5 e She did this . Harriet . She did it 6 to get even with me . I know she did . , 7 JOE : We're sorry, Mrs . Shipley .. 8 GLADYS : (NOT DARING) First my husband, then Jepa4f. . . ..n3w the 9 baby . I haven't got anybody . I'm all by myself . There 10 isn't anybody in the world who cares . Nobody. 11 JOE : We're sorry Mrs . Shipley . I wish there was something 12 we could do . 13 GLADYS : No you're not. You're like the rest of 'em . _^- = en.be4x 1k,s-.m3~..+ae,- 4P-laet~-s .e-} ; --must-~-mywg+andstin:Now 15 -"ALrt nL g3t .h 4y. (SHE SOBS) It's Harriet . She's the ( . ( '--.-,;- ~ . . ;, 16 one ~Lol )i +t ~,dfct < ~v~ ' ` ?&, .1d : 17 JOE : /p Wit! d ro `t1l P-9 .stF~'iaec 18 SOUND: THEY TURN AND DAVE THE ROOM . DOOR OPEN AND CLOSE 19 MUSIC : SIGNATURE 20 FENN: (EASILY) The story you have just heai,9, s true . The 21 names were changed to protect the innocent .

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1 GIBNEY: On Thursday, August Lkth, a meeting was held in the 2 Captain of Homicide's office, Los Angeles Polic e 3 Department . In a moment, the results of that meeting . 11. PENN : Now here is our star, Jack Webb . 5 WEBB : CONI'RCIAL INSERT

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FENNEMAN: Now, here is our star, Jack Webb .

WEBB: Th1k you, . The Chesterfield you

smoke today is the best cigarette ever made and best

for you. That's a fact . And, to my way of thinking ,

it's the very best reason for you to change to Chesterfield .

Buy them either way . . .regular or king-size . . . If you try

them, I think you'll say with all of us -- Chesterfields

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1 GIBNEY At the meeting held in Captain Lohrman1a office, it was 2 decided that no criminal act had taken place and the 3 case was officially marked closed .

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1 MUSIC : THEME 2 THEME : UN11Ft E .~

3 GIBNEY: You have just heard Dragnet a series of authenti c k cases from official files . Tec,al advice comes from 5 the office of Chief of Police, W, H . Parkar. Los Angeles 6 Police Department . Technical advisors : Captain Jack 7 Donohoe, Sgt . Marty Wynn, Sgt . Vance Brasher. Heard 9 tonight were : , . ,:•. 1 0 11 Script by John Robinson . Music by . 12 Hal Gibney speaking . 13 MUSIC : THEME UNDER . . . .CONTINUES 1k FENN : Watch an entirely different Dragnet case history eac h 15 week on your local NBC Television station. Please cY~eck 16 your newspapers for the day and time . (BEAT) 17 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet, transcribed, from 18 Los Angeles . 19 (FATIMA HITCH HIKE)

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